lamb bones

[Guest rabbiter]

I have been killing and feeding mutton for years and had no problems yet ,but fat is just as important in the make up of a dogs diet.I have got so many dogs that its alot of work to keep the tucker up to them ,untill a few weeks ago when I went to see the new local butcher and asked if I could pick over his "Bone bins " out the back so I now go on a tuesday as the truck comes wed and friday,I get enough to feed twenty dogs and best of all its free !!!

Edited August 6, 2006 by rabbiter

[hunting_mad_jock_lad 1]

well i used to give my dogs beef bones but due to cost the butcher has started getting ready de-boned meat so that was that. the place i work throw away bout 200kg of meaty bones away a day. but now i know its ok to feed i will start taking them. thanks very much for all your help.

[MikeTheDog 153]

This evenings "Dogs Dinner"

 

 

[inan 841]

absolutely nothing wrong with lamb ribs mine get them regularly and they are gleaming on them .......

Yes I agree Lamb ribs are good Mydogs love them ,unfortuanately lost my supplier .

[Vermin Dropper 2]

absolutely nothing wrong with lamb ribs mine get them regularly and they are gleaming on them .......

Yes I agree Lamb ribs are good Mydogs love them ,unfortuanately lost my supplier .

 

 

Try "Landywoods" or "TPMS" mate, both have web sites

Edited August 6, 2006 by Vermin Dropper

[FastDogz 155]

Get it down em!

I have to admit whole heartedly i dont feed raw my greys are fed on "dog food"..But your dogs on here look 100% better than mine.Along with every other dog ive seen on barf.Keep feeding the way you are lads! Smashing dogs.

 

Would change to BARF mysen but my 2 eat like its going outta fashin so bones are NO..Unless someone can reccomend a type of bone that they cant bite chunks off and swallow em?

 

Ta :kiss:

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

bones are NO..Unless someone can reccomend a type of bone that they cant bite chunks off and swallow em?

 

Try this: See if you can get access to a big, commercial / catering style Mincer. One with a big heart. Fit the 'course as hell' plate in it. Run stuff like lambs ribs through that. along with what ever meat you want. Then mix that, along with your veg, bit of bread / meal, what ever, in a wet broth.

 

Greyhounds are renouned bolters of their food. God knows why. They just are. But dogs can't suck and that makes it a right bitch for them to bolt such 'wet' food. So, that way, you'll be giving them all the goodness you care to, without them risking Bloat or choking themselves to death

[inan 841]

absolutely nothing wrong with lamb ribs mine get them regularly and they are gleaming on them .......

Yes I agree Lamb ribs are good Mydogs love them ,unfortuanately lost my supplier .

 

 

Try "Landywoods" or "TPMS" mate, both have web sites

Cheers Vermin Dropper.

[FastDogz 155]

bones are NO..Unless someone can reccomend a type of bone that they cant bite chunks off and swallow em?

 

Try this: See if you can get access to a big, commercial / catering style Mincer. One with a big heart. Fit the 'course as hell' plate in it. Run stuff like lambs ribs through that. along with what ever meat you want. Then mix that, along with your veg, bit of bread / meal, what ever, in a wet broth.

 

Greyhounds are renouned bolters of their food. God knows why. They just are. But dogs can't suck and that makes it a right bitch for them to bolt such 'wet' food. So, that way, you'll be giving them all the goodness you care to, without them risking Bloat or choking themselves to death

 

Cheers for that :thumbs-up:

I have noticed on the Landywoods website that they have the bone minced in too.Super might order a few bits off there to start off with.Any ideas how to switch the dogs over on it?Is it a space of 5 days? And also My male Grey has Colitis would the BARF help his digestion or make it worse?Im sick of Jelly,runny poops every so often but i dont want him crapping concrete at the same time :whistle:

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Colitis? Out of my juris diction I'm afraid, mate. Need a Greyhound Vet for that sort of talk. Ask at the local track.

 

Mheanwhile, as just a lay man musing; I find it's not just bones that produce the chalk balls - nothing wrong with them anyway. Easy to pick up and do the dogs anal glands wonderous good. No, it's an 'excess' of bones. I've never personally fed " BARF ". Just managed my dogs diets as I've ever known. Tried to maintane a healthy balance. Maybe just ease your dogs onto a bonier diet and see for yourself? Bone in the diet has to be more natural than a spastic colon, surely? And, in us, we treat That with 'Fibre', don't we?

[Vermin Dropper 2]

bones are NO..Unless someone can reccomend a type of bone that they cant bite chunks off and swallow em?

 

Try this: See if you can get access to a big, commercial / catering style Mincer. One with a big heart. Fit the 'course as hell' plate in it. Run stuff like lambs ribs through that. along with what ever meat you want. Then mix that, along with your veg, bit of bread / meal, what ever, in a wet broth.

 

Greyhounds are renouned bolters of their food. God knows why. They just are. But dogs can't suck and that makes it a right bitch for them to bolt such 'wet' food. So, that way, you'll be giving them all the goodness you care to, without them risking Bloat or choking themselves to death

 

Cheers for that :thumbs-up:

I have noticed on the Landywoods website that they have the bone minced in too.Super might order a few bits off there to start off with.Any ideas how to switch the dogs over on it?Is it a space of 5 days? And also My male Grey has Colitis would the BARF help his digestion or make it worse?Im sick of Jelly,runny poops every so often but i dont want him crapping concrete at the same time :whistle:

 

 

As said guys, Landywoods do mince with bone in it including whole minced chickens.

and I wouldn't worry too much about the size of bones, it's the fact that they're raw that matters.

 

some people favour the instant swap over to barf, and they just cope with the upset tum for a few days.

I'd go for the gradual change over, if you split her regular food into three meals, then start changing one meal at a time,

for example.....start giving her chicken wings for breakfast, then her regular food for lunch and tea.

After a few days of that introduce a second meal, chicken wings for breakfast, maybe minced beef or tripe for lunch and her old food for tea.... (can you see where I'm going?)

After a week to 10 days or so she'll be on a full barf diet and you can then knock it down to 2 meals a day.

 

The thing to remember with barf is veriety and balance.....

Mine generaly have mince beef and tripe in the morning, then every few days they get some liver/heart or kidney, cod liver oil, maybe some natural yogurt, raw egg (inc shell) and some pulped veg in with it, (in really hot weather I freeze blocks of fruit pulp for them to chew on and cool down, they love it)

 

in the evening they get their meaty bones.... chicken/turkey carcases, turkey necks, lamb bones, whole trout, skinned rabbit, pork neck bones........

 

They love it and if you look at my pic below, I don't think "May" looks too bad on it either,